Kidnapping, Pain and Reunion: Inside Yoko Ono’s Decades-Long Saga to Find Her Missing Daughter

In the early 1970s, Yoko Ono was often described as one of the most controversial women since Wallis Simpson—the woman for whom King Edward VIII abdicated the British throne. Behind the image of the provocative avant-garde artist was another Yoko—not a celebrity nor a provocateur, and not merely John Lennon’s partner. She was a mother who lost her only daughter, who Yoko would not hold again for twenty-three years. That is the story I want to tell you today. July, 2026